> I don't see how this group would be neocons instead of just plain cons.
> Mirowski's new book shows how some cold war social democrats came within
> the ambit of RAND and the Pentagon.
>
> The neocons seem to revel in state power, not the shrivelled state that
> Friedman and the conservatives want.
>
> Maybe I am missing something.
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No, you're right. Back in the late 80's Pat Buchanan did a piece in the WA Post giving a rough taxonomy of the state power neocons and the libertarian neocons; MF is more in the camp of Robert Nozick than the camp of Scalia, Rhenquist, Cheney etc. [who are state power conservatives that "got there first" in an oblique sense....].
Ian